Portrætfotografi

"Dear Maine, written by Morgan Rielly, an author and state representative, and Reza Jalali, a former refugee and executive director of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, recounts the trials and triumphs of twenty immigrants who have arrived in Maine over the past few decades. Dear Maine includes black and white photographic portraits by Lilit Danielyan."-- Provided by publisher.

Between the 1970s and '90s, Mitch Epstein photographed the rituals of excess and alienation, jubilance and desire that defined late twentieth-century America. These pictures marked the beginning of his photographic inquiry into the American psyche and landscape that has now lasted half a century. Recreation captures the vitality of modern America in a pre-smartphone, less self-conscious time. In these early works, Epstein's wit reigns, along with his singular way of making the mundane startle and the extraordinary appear to perfectly fit in.This new edition expands on the original Recreation book published by Steidl in 2005. More than a third of these photographs have never been published, and all of them have been re-worked with fidelity to the pictorial quality of the films of the era.

Between 1973 and '76, Mitch Epstein photographed in American cities-New York, Los Angeles and New Orleans, among others. In 1973 he was initially shooting in black-and-white as a student of Garry Winogrand when he asked his teacher, "Why not color?" With Winogrand's blessing, Epstein shot his first rolls of Kodachrome. Silver + Chrome is a chronicle of his three years alternating between color and black-and-white, before eventually committing to color.This book contains Epstein's earliest work, virtually none of which has been seen before. In these kinetic tableaux, the artist's exuberance is tamed, just barely, by his formal intelligence. He depicts American city life as it undergoes taboo-shattering sexual liberation, economic crises and the repercussions of a boondoggle war in Vietnam, immersing us in the urban chaos of this complicated time.

Anonymous Women is a series of photographs with models using household objects and drapery to comment on women and domesticity.

The violinist Thomas Zehetmair swims in a lake with a water temperature of three degrees, the clarinetist Sabine Meyer drinks tea on her horse ranch, or the chamber music singer Brigitte Fassbaender shares a sofa with her cats: rarely has a photographer come as close to great musicians as Frank Schinski does in the photo book Neumarkt. The photos of artists form the core of the book about an outstanding chamber music hall that has now been drawing the stars of the classical music scene to the small city in the Upper Palatinate for forty years. This is reason enough to photograph aforesaid musicians as well as a selection of the people who first made the "miracle of Neumarkt" possible: from the founder to subscribers to in-house technicians. The series of photos are supplemented with essays by renowned authors like Sir András Schiff, Prof. Peter Gülke, and Dariusz Szymanski.

Includes an interview with Eggleston conducted by Phillip Prodger and three others.

Text by Okwui Enwezor. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Interview with Chuck Close.

In my seventieth year I have become the lucid dreamer, who has awakened in his sleep of life and knows that he is dreaming. I am a phantom in a phantom landscape. I assume nothing, and find the familiar to be a curiosity. The inherited bedrock of definitions which described reality for me is now porous and insubstantial. Has it been sand all along and I failed to notice? As my consciousness spirals to its predestined disappearance age has forced me to pay attention. Now I begin to see the silhouette of the mystery. I think about thinking and am beyond the comfort of conformity. I must ask questions that I never though to ask before. The most profound questions seem to be transparent in their ordinariness and deceptive in their significance. A child would understand. I know that this modest enquiry must fail. But what else am I to do? Duane Michalls.

In 1988 Twelvetrees Press published the first book of Matt Mahurin's haunted, singular, and puzzling images. After working for several years in digital imagery, and writing and directing a feature film, Mahurin returned to the simplicity of the camera and darkroom. The photographs reflect the mood and vision of his first monograph and include work from America, France, Nicaragua, Ireland, and Mexico.Mahurin's vision straddles two worlds -- daytime glimpses out of the corner of the mind's eye, and night visions we might spy with our eyes closed. Ordinary moments captured in mid-gesture are infused with an unexpected ritualism. The photograph becomes a frozen prayer to the perpetual rhythm of everyday life.

Aura Rosenberg is concerned with the visible expression of sexual desire. Capturing the moment of orgasm on camera is usually reserved for the voyeur, the hidden witness. What Rosenberg has done is present herself as the public's witness via the camera, inviting a number of men into her studio to reenact the ecstasy of release, the moment when potency and vulnerability coexist. The result is a collection of extraordinary photographs that run the gamut of psychosexual expression. Whether her subjects were really giving their best shot or simply indulging in sublime fakery is just one of the very pertinent questions these pictures throw out. In acting out their most abandoned sexual and emotional moment before her lens, Rosenberg's subjects invite us to step beyond the traditional limits of voyeurism. These beautiful, curious and erotic images reserve the traditional male-on-female gaze and relieve it of some of its associations with misogyny and perversity. Writers Lynn Tillman and Gary Indiana reflect together on the experience of witnessing these photographs.

Der Titel dieses Buches verrät uns, wer hier vor der Kamera steht: Kathleen McCain Engman posiert seit 2009 für ihren Sohn Charlie. In "MOM" treten wir einer Frau gegenüber, die wir nie kennenlernen: ihr intensiver Blick und die mit Sommersprossen besiedelte Haut werden uns zwar bald vertraut, doch die Rollen, die sie in den Bildern einnimmt, werden zunehmend unklarer. Engman begann seine Mutter abzubilden, weil sie verfügbar war und stets bereit ist, den Ansprüchen ihrer Kinder gerecht zu werden. Was als eine natürliche Sache seinen Lauf nahm, verwandelte sich in eine intensive Zusammenarbeit. Das Resultat ist weder ein Familienalbum noch eine Hommage an eine Mutter, sondern eine viel tiefere und weit komplexere Interaktion. Eine, welche die Limitationen von Vertrautheit sowie die Regeln und Begrenzungen um Rolle und Repräsentation, Verletzlichkeit und Kontrolle hinterfragt. Eine auch, die sich mit dem Sehen und Gesehen-werden beschäftigt.

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Vertauschte Köpfe erscheint begleitend zur ersten gemeinsamen Ausstellung der Brüder Andreas Mühe und Konrad Mühe im KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein. Wie können sich zwei Brüder, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, auf Augenhöhe begegnen und ihre Arbeiten in Einklang bringen? Was sie eint, ist die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der Familiengeschichte. Unterschiede ergänzen sich: Während sich der eine mit der Verwobenheit von Familiengeschichte und deutscher Geschichte beschäftigt, bearbeitet der andere das Verhältnis von menschlichen und technologischen Körpern sowie deren politische Subtexte in der Gegenwart. Gleich einer Familie, die sich unterschiedliche Geschichten übereinander erzählt, greift der Katalog die verschiedenen Zeitebenen und Erzählstränge auf. So enthält Vertauschte Köpfe gleich mehrere Bücher, die sich aufeinander beziehen und gegenseitig herausfordern: Die Arbeiten von Andreas und Konrad Mühe treten in Wechselbeziehung mit Texten von Valeria Waibel, Karsten Ehlers, Monika Maron, Kito Nedo und einem Comic von Gregor Hinz. Es schwebt die Frage im Raum: Wie fest ist der Untergrund des gemeinsamen Fundaments?

Im März 2021 wird der Mannheimer Fotograf Luigi Toscano von der UNESCO zum "Artist for Peace" ernannt. Er ist der erste Deutsche, der diese Auszeichnung erhält. Toscano wird für sein weltweites Erinnerungsprojekt "Gegen das Vergessen" geehrt.

Die Reise geht weiter, in seinem zweiten Bildband zeigt der Fotografen Markus Gebauer (MGness) noch beeindruckender die zeitlose Schönheit. Entdecken Sie den verborgenen Glanz des Verfalls und den morbiden Charme vergangener Epochen Europas. Vergessen scheinen diese Orte, an denen der Zahn der Zeit erbarmungslos nagt und in die Geschichte mit der Gegenwart verschmilzt. In seinem Bildband ?timeless 2? zeigt er uns erneut wie eindrucksvoll die Natur erobert, was der Mensch einst geschaffen hat.